Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great?
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 week agoI just want a printer that doesn’t require you to upload your gcode to their cloud server before getting permission from them to print.
TheRealKuni@midwest.social 1 week ago
Even on Bambu’s locked-down firmware you can just toss the gcode on the SD card and print that way if you don’t want to deal with their cloud service. Or throw it on a flash drive and plug into the USB port.
My previous printer could ONLY function via SD card, so I’m kinda used to that anyway.
Don’t get me wrong, I think Bambu locking down their firmware and forcing everyone through their cloud service is shitty. But you can print without it still.
Lem453@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
For now
theoretiker@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
“Our cloud analytics tell us that everyone uses cloud to print, so we are removing SD card slots from our printers.”